Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

It has been wonderful to be the home port for the brave and brilliant forces of ABC News around the world and to feel every single night that you and I were in a conversation about the day together.

There's a definite sense this morning on the part of the Kerry voters that perhaps this is code, 'moral values,' is code for something else. It's code for taking a different position about gays in America, an exclusionary position, a code about abortion, code about imposing Christianity over other faiths.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.